Imam – asws said: ‘They (the Momin) obey Satan without knowledge (in submissions) and this is Shirk’.
[55] عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ ضُرَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ ما يُؤْمِنُ أَكْثَرُهُمْ بِاللَّهِ إِلَّا وَ هُمْ مُشْرِكُونَ قَالَ شِرْكُ طَاعَةٍ وَ لَيْسَ شِرْكَ عِبَادَةٍ وَ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلى حَرْفٍ قَالَ إِنَّ الْآيَةَ تَنْزِلُ فِي الرَّجُلِ ثُمَّ تَكُونُ فِي أَتْبَاعِهِ ثُمَّ قُلْتُ كُلُّ مَنْ نَصَبَ دُونَكُمْ شَيْئاً فَهُوَ مِمَّنْ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلَى حَرْفٍ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ وَ قَدْ يَكُونُ مَحْضاً Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Mohammed ibn Isa, who from Yunus, who from Ibn Bukayr, who from Durays, who has narrated the following from Abu Abdullah – asws : ‘About the words of Allah – azwj : ‘ And most of them although embrace faith (become Momin) but still associate others with Allah’ (12:106).
The Imam – asws said: ‘(It means) ‘Al-Shirk’ in obedience and it is not in worship’, and the Words of Allah to achieve worldly gains ….(22:11). The Imam – asws said: ‘A Verse comes down about a man and then it applies to his followers’. I then said: ‘Do those who appoint others (as peers) instead of you (Ahl Al-Bayt – asws ) are worship for worldly gains? The Imam – asws said: ‘Yes, in cases (of submission) it is just that (al-Shirk)’.
From him, from Ibn Muskaan, from Maalik Al-Juhny who said: Abu Abdullah – asws said to me: ‘O Maalik! Will you not be happy that you establish the Prayer, and you give the Zakat, and you restrain yourself, and you enter the Paradise? O Maalik! There is none from the people who followed the imam in the world except that he (their imam) will come on the Day of Judgement cursing them and they would be cursing him except for you and the one who is similar to your condition. O Maalik!